Obituaries
Blesma helps military veterans who have lost limbs through or after service. Here, we honor our Blesma Members and those closely linked to the Charity who have sadly passed on. Blesma shares these Obituaries, which contain heroic war stories and tales of survival, from WWII to the present day.
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Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum, who has died aged 90 at his home in Seaford, East Sussex, was a former soldier with 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, during the Se…
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Warren Wolstencroft
Warren served with the Queen's Lancashire Regiment from 1993 until 2001. He contracted a rare form of cancer in his right hand which led to the amput…
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Paul Burns
Paul Burns, 52, a true Blesma hero and an injured survivor of Warrenpoint 1979, died suddenly in a hospital in Berkshire on Friday 7th June. He was re…
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Mike McErlain
Jerome Church, General Secretary of Blesma, The Limbless Veterans says: “Lieutenant Colonel Mike McErlain, a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps h…
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George Gates
George Gloster Gates was born in Mortlake on Saturday 1st November 1919. He was the second of six siblings. When George was three years old, the fam…
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Billy Griffith MBE
Billy Griffith who died on 30 July 2012 aged 92, was a young RAF driver who was captured by the Japanese in Java in 1942. Shortly thereafter he was f…
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